III.
Meeting with Dr. O'Brien, April 13th or 14th , and possibly in the Summer

Pam
Lockwood met with Dr. O'Brien when he was on campus recently. He asked what
concerns the Faculty Senate had. He will be back on campus April 13 and 14 and
would like to meet with the senate on one of these days. If senators can't make
it, they need to send a representative from their department. Dr. O'Brien also
mentioned that he might like to meet with the Faculty Senate some over the summer.

IV.
Status of the Tenure and Promotion Recommendations

Pam
Lockwood reported that the recommendations went through the T&P Committee.

A.
The administrative recommendations in the primary folder will stay the same.

B.
An additional explanation of any administrative duties will be added.

C.
The expanded APS will be retained.

D.
The summary of grade distributions will be required rather than recommended.

E.
The Alumni Evaluations will be included in the primary folder.

F.
The summaries of the CIEQ will go in the primary folder and the raw data will
be retained in a supplemental folder housed in the candidate's department.

G.
Copies of the front page of the reference page for publications can go in the
primary folder.

H.
It was stated that departments should be following the 3rd year review process
that is detailed on p. 75 of the Faculty Handbook.

I.
Collegiality will not be a separate category for Tenure and Promotion, but the
Tenure and Promotion committee will recommend that Professionalism be added
as a category in the APS.

V.
University Committee Nominations

Send
Pam Lockwood your nominations if you have not made them yet.

VI.
College Elections and Officer Elections

Faculty
Senate Officer elections will be on May 4th at 12:15. If faculty senate members
need replaced, their college should have a meeting to nominate and elect replacements.
New members can attend this meeting.

VII.
Memo from Dr. Chapman (3/3 and 4/4 load)

This
memo was discussed by the senate. The senate thought this was a helpful document
that provided good beginning points on this issue. A motion was passed that
included the following items:

A.
Accept the bulleted items under the “Potential Revisions to the Faculty Research
Policy” with the following revisions:

-
Strike “(e.g., 5 years)” from the 6th bullet.

-
Fix the typo on the 11th bullet to read “buy out” rather than “but out.”

-
Rephrase the last bullet in terms of the issue of service. As it reads, the
intent seems to be that faculty on 3/3 loads do not need to be involved with
service, and that faculty on 4/4 loads need to be doing a lot of service. The
consensus was that both groups of faculty need to be involved in service.

B.
The Faculty Senate advocates the creation of a panel to work on the specific
examples for “Research” and “Creative Accomplishments.” They also support the
creation of an Action Plan that would show the implementation timeline for moving
to a 3/3 load or examples of how the implementation might proceed. Members of
the Faculty Senate would be happy to help with such a plan. They also advocate
meetings about these decisions to be open so that interested faculty would be
able to attend.

C.
The Faculty Senate supports the 3/3 load for faculty. We understand the
value of offering this reduced load to new faculty and request a schedule (i.e.,
projected timeframe) for implementing the procedure for new as well as existing
faculty.

VIII.
Academic Dishonesty Policy

Harry
Hueston will put together a policy and disseminate it to senators before the
next meeting. This policy will be discussed at the April 21st Faculty Senate
meeting.